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Top Eric Adams adviser Winnie Greco caught handing CITY reporter a bag of chips stuffed with cash

Winnie Greco, a top advisor for NYC Mayor Eric Adams, has been caught handing a CITY reporter a potato chip bag stuffed with cash. 

Greco, 62, ran into Honan outside the Harlem campaign office, and the reporter later received a text asking her to meet across the street at a nearby TD Bank, according to the report.

Honan met Greco at the bank, then was brought to a nearby Whole Foods, where Greco handed her a crumpled bag of Herr’s sour cream and onion rippled potato chips.

Thinking she was being offered a snack, Honan told Greco more than once that she could not accept the chips, but Greco insisted, according to the report.

After the two parted ways, Honan opened the bag and discovered a red envelope containing at least one $100 bill and several $20 bills, The City reported.

The outlet referred to the exchange as a “failed payoff” but Greco claimed that she “accidentally” handed the reporter the cash, according to sources.

In comments to The City on Wednesday evening, Greco apologized for the supposed mix-up.

“I make a mistake,” she said. “I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I’m so sorry honey,” Greco told The City.

“Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.”

“I just wanted to be her friend,” Greco said, adding, “I just wanted to have one good friend. It’s nothing,” she told the outlet.

Attorney Steven Brill further claimed that Greco was “purely innocent” and chalked the incident up to a misunderstanding based on cultural differences.

“I can see how this looks strange,” Brill told The City. “But I assure you that Winnie’s intent was purely innocent. In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.”

“Winnie is apologetic and embarrassed by any negative impression or confusion that may have caused,” Brill concluded.

In America, we’ve learned to do this sort of thing privately, over dinner or in the clubhouse. Live and learn, Winnie, chop chop.

(Besides, it’s usual, as in my own case, for our mothers to pay people to be our friends.)